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Corona Devo 3326

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What I love (and find amazing!) about the Bible is that even if we have read a verse or an account many times the Lord can bring it up afresh in our lives and reawaken (and convict) us with His words and His truth, even though we may have read the same words many times before.  Many. Such is the case with Genesis Chapter 3 today.  Oh, sure, we all know the account of Adam and Eve falling to sin by eating the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden  of Eden.  No matter how often we do or don't go to church, we know  those verses and that story-of-the-first-sin by heart. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” (2) The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ( 3) but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or y...

Corona Devo 3325

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Let your light shine before others today, Brothers and Sisters in Christ!  Let's be beacons, and s ometimes we have to shine in the morning...in the early  morning. The sun had not even risen yesterday morning as I dropped off six students (all that our car could fit)  at their public high school at 6:45  in the morning for their Christian student group meeting before school. Our pick-ups began at 6:20 AM, but the young people filling my vehicle were up-and-at-em, ready to roll, and they were shining .   One-by-one, we pulled in driveways and willing teens hopped in.  As we drove, they chattered, laughed, talked, and happily made room--as if they were in mid-day good moods, instead of pre-dawn hours. Sidenote: I don't have to rack-my-brain too hard to remember back to high school and wonder if I got up before school for Bible study... because I didn't.  Did you? But (praise the Lord!!) these kids ARE...and (weekly) many other students are a...